First day on bikes in Tel Aviv

I had assembled our bikes last night..after a good night's sleep. . John finished getting Ann and his bikes assembled  today.
We weren't disappointed with the typical  sumptuous  Israeli breakfast at our hotel( don't need lunch)

Right after breakfast, we set off by bike along the boardwalk towards Jaffa harbour. This is leisurely cruising as the terrain is flat although we had to watch out for deep seams in the slate stones that can grab the tires. It was a sunny hot humid day with no wind to keep us from sweating like crazy and the ocean looked awfully tempting for a refreshing dip.
Our touring was easy and fun until Naomi had a rather serious mechanical with her rear dérailleur  that caused her to tumble off her bike.  She was not hurt, but her bike didn't seem too good.  I dashed back to our hotel to get some tools to fix what I thought was a bent derailleur hanger.  But that was not the only problem, as we found out from a bike shop not far away.  She needed a new rear dérailleur. The bike mechanic at the shop realigned the bent bike part (at no charge) and found a bike shop about 20 minutes away (by bike) who would have the required part.  He set up the dérailleur so Naomi could ride and with a little bit of confusion finding the shop in the downtown district, we had part replaced and the bike adjusted properly .
We had left John and Ann back at the hotel while we did all this - they had lunch and a nap and were perfectly refreshed to go down to the beach for a swim with us when we returned.

A late night supper and long walk completed the evening and tomorrow we head for Haifa.